Accumulated nonsense from one arrow's journey through time and space

04/30/2009

opera tragedy

Scene: late spring evening in the recital hall of a local university

Characters: boy, girl, other boy, bassi profondi

Girl is bored and decides to go see a recital by herself since all of her friends are either unavailable or not interested in opera. Girl gets all dolled up and goes to the recital hall to hear a world-renowned bassi profondi. Girl enters recital hall, chooses a seat, and starts reading the opera program.

Boy enters recital hall and looks around while talking on the phone. Girl notices boy and smiles. Boy picks the same row that the girl is sitting in, walks over, and asks, "are these seats taken?" Girl is enchanted with boy's gorgeous bass voice and motions for him to take a seat. Boy sits down one seat away and starts leafing through program. Girl smiles and flips through her program too.

The lights dim. Another boy enters the recital hall and goes to greet boy, boy scoots over to the seat next to girl, other boy takes first boy's seat as the show begins. Boy and girl are now sitting together and girl finds the courage to say hi and introduce herself. Boy is very charming and boy and girl talk during each break in the program.

Bassi profondi's performance is sublime. The booming Italian voice, the delightful accent, the humor, the cute nieces sitting in the front row, the superb accompanist and the music choices are perfect. First one encore, then another, followed by another. Boy and girl look at each other smiling while applauding after each piece.

The lights come back on, girl exits right and thinks boy is following behind her.

Boy exits left.

Girl and boy get separated without girl saying goodbye, without girl wishing boy good luck at his senior vocal recital on Saturday, and without girl asking boy for his number.